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1167707

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an estimate of the number of children enrolling in schools in England in the event of extending freedom of movement to nations including (a) Morocco, (b) Switzerland, (c) Norway, (d) Turkey, (e) North Macedonia, (f) Bosnia, (g) Serbia, (h) Kosovo, (i) Albania and (j) Iceland.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	8211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Freedom of movement is already extended to Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.</p><p> </p><p>For Norway and Iceland, this is because they are members of the European Economic Area (EEA) and for Switzerland, this is because it is part of the single market.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding the other countries mentioned, no estimates have been made in relation to the possible scenario described.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/11/2019 16:51:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1167706

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children from countries of the sixth enlargement of the EU were enrolled in schools in the first (a) five and (b) 10 years after those countries joined the EU; how many of those children were (i) primary school aged, (ii) secondary school aged and (iii) early years; and what the average cost to the public purse per child was in each of those settings since the sixth enlargement of the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	8210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Information about how many children from countries of the sixth enlargement of the EU who were enrolled in schools in the first (a) five and (b) 10 years after those countries joined the EU is only partially available (in an uncalculated format) and calculation of overall figures based even on partial data could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/11/2019 16:35:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1166942

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Class Sizes: Romford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the pupil to teacher ratio is, including teaching assistants, in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Romford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	6281
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides the average pupil to teacher ratio in state funded primary and state funded secondary schools in Romford constituency and England as reported by schools in November 2018.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Pupil : teacher ratio</strong>[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>State Funded Primary</p></td><td><p>State Funded Secondary</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p>20 : 9</p></td><td><p>16 : 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Romford</strong></p></td><td><p>21 : 8</p></td><td><p>15 : 5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Source: School Workforce Census</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Pupil teacher ratios are available at school, local authority and regional level in the publication ‘School Workforce in England, November 2018’ available at the following web link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Combined ratios including teaching assistants are not routinely published. Pupil : adult ratios are available by phase at national level and are available in the web link provided above (Table 17a).</p><p> </p><p>[1] The England figures are calculated by dividing the total full-time equivalent (FTE) number of pupils on roll in schools in each year by the total number of teachers in schools each year. Where schools are not open on Census day, for both the School Workforce Census (November), and the School Census (January) they are excluded. Schools that do not provide either pupil or teacher figures are also excluded. See School Workforce Census methodology document for further information: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811619/SWFC_Methodology.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811619/SWFC_Methodology.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 17:26:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1166931

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps the Government has taken to tackle extremism in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	6270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>All children must be safe wherever they are educated, and the Department is committed to ensuring that children are safe from extremism and radicalisation.</p><p>The Department is actively working with the education sector, national and local partners to safeguard children and young people from these risks. This includes supporting schools to effectively implement their obligations under the Prevent duty; to protect young people from radicalising influences; ensuring that schools are equipped to build children’s resilience against extremist ideologies; and taking firm action where extremism concerns arise.</p><p>The Department has carried out its own regulatory action and supported the Teaching Regulation Agency to prohibit individuals from being involved in education, including where there are substantiated concerns about their extremist views or activities. The Department has also developed a new online form to allow for concerns regarding extremism within the education sector to be reported directly to the Department, to complement our existing counter-extremism helpline.</p><p>The Department also continues to update the Educate Against Hate website, which brings together the best advice, support and resources available for parents, teachers and school leaders, to help them protect young people from extremism and radicalisation.</p><p>The Department continues to fund, with the Home Office, a network of Prevent Education Officers, who provide expertise and support directly to schools and teachers on Prevent implementation.</p><p>The Department has also worked with Ofsted to further strengthen their inspection framework to ensure that all schools are helping to prepare children for life in modern Britain, including through their requirement to promote our shared values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and respect and tolerance of those with other faiths and beliefs.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 14:40:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1166939

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Romford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils are in receipt of free school meals in Romford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	6278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The most recent figures for the number of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals come from the school census for January 2019 which was published in June 2019. 1,842 pupils from Romford constituency were eligible for and claiming free school meals at that time.</p><p>Further information can be found in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/11/2019 11:16:18 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1150496

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	School Leaving: Basic Skills
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of (a) literacy and (b) numeracy of (i) primary school and (ii) secondary school leavers in Romford constituency in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	1613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>The number and percentage of pupils in state-funded schools, at the end of Key Stage 2 (KS2) and Key Stage 4 (KS4), who achieved the expected level of literacy or numeracy[1] in Romford constituency and England are in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p>Figures relate to academic years 2013/14 to 2018/19 for KS2 and 2013/14 to 2017/18 for KS4. Data for the years 2009/10 – 2012/13 are not provided because collating this information is complex due to changes in the methodology, published content and producing this data would incur a disproportionate cost. KS4 data for 2018/19 is not provided because the Department will publish data for parliamentary constituencies as part of the ‘Key stage 4 performance, 2019 (revised)’ in January 2020.</p><p> </p><p>At KS2, attainment in Romford was above the national average in all subjects in all years for which data has been provided (2014-2019). In 2016, new tests and frameworks for teacher assessment were brought in at KS2. These changes mean that the expected standard from 2016 is higher and it is not possible to make direct comparisons between the results before and after these changes. Since 2016[2], attainment in Romford increased by 11% in the reading test, 12% in the Maths test and 6% in the grammar, punctuation and spelling test. These increases were greater than for state-funded schools in England as a whole during the same time period, which were 7%, 9% and 5%.</p><p> </p><p>At KS4, achievement of grades 9-4/A*-C in the English and Maths pillars of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc)[3] are used. Achievement at grades 9-4/A*-C in the English and mathematics pillar of the EBacc are close for Romford and England from 2013/14 to 2017/18. However, for the English pillar Romford performed better than the national average in the last two years (77% in 2017/18 for Romford, compared to 75% nationally). For the Mathematics pillar, Romford’s attainment has been slightly lower than the national average (69% in 2017/18 for Romford compared to 70% nationally).</p><p> </p><p>Pupils must achieve at least a grade 4 in English and Maths at the end of KS4 or are required to resit these qualifications in post 16 education.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] There is not a definitive definition of expected level of literacy or numeracy for each key stage. Figures have been provided for achievement in English and Maths, or English and Maths subjects, in the headline or additional measures that were used for that key stage, in each academic year.</p><p>[2] Changes made within the 2017/18 KS2 writing teacher assessment (TA) frameworks mean judgements in 2018 are not directly comparable to those made in previous years. This means there is not a suitable time series for comparisons between years for all of reading, writing and maths and the writing TA.</p><p>[3] The English Baccalaureate (EBacc) is a set of subjects at GCSE that keeps young people’s options open for further study and future careers. The EBacc comprises of: English language and literature; maths; the sciences; geography or history; a language.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 1613_Number_and_percentage_of_pupils_at_the_end_of_KS2_who_achieve_the_expected_standard_level_4_or_above_by_subject.pdf title 1613_Table 2 file name 1613_Percent_of_pupils_end_of_Ks4_who_do_meet_select_measures_of_achievement_in_the_Eng_pillar_and_the_Math_pillar_of_the_Eng_Baccaulaureatte_in.pdf title 1613_Table question first answered 25/10/2019 11:40:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1150495

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Romford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship starts there were in Romford constituency in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	1612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>Our reforms have fundamentally changed what apprenticeships are and the long-term opportunities they provide. The minimum 20% off-the-job training rule, the shift to higher quality standards with a longer average duration and the drop-off in frameworks have already contributed to a 26% rise in average expected apprenticeship training hours over the past year.</p><p> </p><p>The apprenticeship levy and funding arrangements are an important part of our changes to raise apprenticeship quality, supporting employers to make a long-term sustainable investment in training.</p><p> </p><p>The profile of apprenticeship starts changed significantly prior to, and following, the introduction of our reforms; care should therefore be taken in comparing and interpreting this data.</p><p> </p><p>The number of apprenticeship starts in the Romford parliamentary constituency in each academic year since 2005/06 is given in the attached table. Please note that the figures for 2018/19 are provisional and cover the period August 2018 to April 2019. Finalised figures for the 2018/19 academic year will be published in November 2019.</p><p>The Further Education data library contains additional breakdowns of apprenticeship starts, by characteristics such as age, level and sector subject area: <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 24/10/2019 15:13:07 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 1612_apprenticeship_starts_for_Romford_by_academic_year.xls title 1612_table
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1147504

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Out-of-school Education: Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to protect students at Islamic education centres in the UK from being exposed to potentially radicalising ideology; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	292861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>All schools and colleges, including independent schools, are subject to the Prevent Duty, which requires them to protect people from the harm of radicalisation and from being drawn into terrorism.</p><p>They are also required to actively promote the values that underpin and unite our society – democracy, rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. The department has worked closely with Ofsted to strengthen Ofsted’s inspection frameworks, so that inspectors are required to assess how well schools and colleges are meeting these requirements.</p><p>We work closely with the sector to support it in implementing these requirements and to ensure our children and young people are resilient to extremist ideology and prepared for life in modern Britain. We fund, with the Home Office, networks of experts who provide frontline support to educational institutions, and we provide a range of free resources for practitioners on our Educate Against Hate and Education and Training Foundation websites for schools and colleges.</p><p>The department is also taking forward a package of activity aimed at enhancing the safeguarding of children in out-of-school settings, where we know some children have their mainstream education supplemented through the provision of after school clubs or activities, which can include religious settings offering tuition in their own faith.</p><p>This includes the provision of £3 million to boost local capacity to identify and intervene in out-of-school settings of concern, and inform best practice on how existing legal powers – held across local authorities and relevant agencies – can best be used to address safeguarding and welfare concerns in these settings. This work started last summer and is due to conclude in March 2020.</p><p>Alongside this, we have been developing a voluntary code of practice for out-of-school setting providers and guidance for parents. These will support providers to understand what is needed to run a safe setting. This will help parents and carers make informed choices when considering out-of-school settings for their children, as well as understand the steps they can take where they have concerns. The department consulted on these documents in late February 2019 and will respond to the consultation in due course. The consultation can be found here: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/regulatory-framework-unit/out-of-school-settings-voluntary-safeguarding-code/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/regulatory-framework-unit/out-of-school-settings-voluntary-safeguarding-code/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 07/10/2019 18:21:09 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1143382

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	History: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to encourage the teaching and learning of (a) Anglo-Saxon history and (b) Old English in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	284875
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/09/2019 16:42:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1142190

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to monitor Qatar's role in the funding of university programmes in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	282243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Students, as the regulator for higher education (HE) in England, is responsible for assessing and monitoring the financial sustainability of registered HE providers. UK universities are autonomous institutions and are therefore responsible for making business planning decisions and ensuring their institutions’ financial sustainability.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 03/09/2019 07:12:21 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell